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...proves in his latest one-man show at Manhattan's Martha Jackson Gallery. Hultberg has developed a way of painting that places him in the ranks of today's artistic funambulists, who walk the tightrope between schools. Quickly glimpsed, his paintings seem abstract; on inspection they turn out to be landscapes in which windows, doors, bits of floor, ship or building fill up the foreground while behind them stretches an endless sea. a distant city, a darkened wasteland. His titles-Death and Transfiguration, Edge of a City, At the Border-are slapped on afterward. The surrealist finds themes...
...great new hone seemed to have dawned for the English-speaking theater. None of Fry's other plays (A Phoenix Too Frequent, Venus Observed, The Dark Is Light Enough) matches Lady in language and, particularly, in dramatic coherence. But even at his weakest, Fry has led a triumphant one-man parade against the modern theater's main movements. Where virtually all other playwrights were committed to realism or surrealism. Fry wrote romantic and imaginative drama; where poetry had been banished from the stage so severely that even T. S. Eliot toned his verse plays down to almost imperceptibly...
...acrobatic Forstman turned in one of the most amazing one-man performances in recent Ivy hockey history, making 44 seemingly uncanny saves in the three regulation periods and 10-minute sudden-death overtime period. Inspired by Forstman's performance, the hard-fighting Yale sextet could not be beaten tonight--only tied...
Brilliant as Lucas is on the court, Ohio State is no one-man team. As a squad, it epitomizes the current trend in basketball away from the spindle-shanked hotshot and the gawky goon, toward towering, robust and superbly coordinated players who can run at top speed all night. Says New York University's Basketball Coach Lou Rossini: "Every man on that first five has a shot-a good shot-at making the pros...
...Great Impostor (Universal-International) is intended as an amiably wacky comedy of false pretenses. Adapted from Robert Crichton's bestselling biography, the picture dramatizes-and vulgarizes-a few of the more lurid episodes in the various and fascinating lives of Ferdinand Waldo Demara, the one-man Who's Who (TIME...